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APPLICATION FILED APB-28,, 190B.

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PARLEY J; or BUTLER, Misso'onn ROARGRKDDTG MAQHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed. April 28, 1908. Serial No. 429,658.

Y -No. 895,271. Patented Aug.4,'1908.

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To all whomit may concern:

Be it known that I, PARLEY J. JEWETI, a citizen of the United States of America, 1e" siding at Butler, in the county of Bates and State of Missouri, have invented new and useful Improvements in Road-Grading Machines, of which the following is a. specification.

This invention relates to road grading machines, and one of the principal objects of the sameis to rovide a sim le, cheap, light and convenient y operated evice for surfacing -roads and for grading from the ditches upon op osite sides of the road toward the center.

other object is to provide a light machine for sore mg the furrow slice after the ditching plow as been used to carry the dirt .over toward the center of the grade to gradually distribute the earth and form a proper grade for the road.

These and other objects me be attained by means of the construction i ustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which,- Figure 1 IS a plan view of a road scraperv and grader made in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same.

Referring to the drawing for a more specific description of my invention, the numeral 1 designates the frame of the machine consisting of a land side 2 and a base or platform 3. The front end of the land side -2 is out on a bevel, as at 4', and the mold board 5 is secured to said land side with the edge of the 1 mold board fiush with the end of said land side.

The mold board is provided with a scraping edge 6 which lies in substantially the same horizontal plane as the bottom of the land side 2, said mold hoard being sli htly curved to carry the dirt over to the light as it is moved along.

The draft device for my grader consists of a chain 7 connected. b a link 8 to a staple 9 secured to the land 'si e and along link 10 connected to a brace 11 extending from the The chain permits the connection of the draft animals at various Cpoints to give the re uired draftanhottom edgeis a lever 12, said lever healing a rounded bearing portion 13 and a long handle portion 14 held in a keeper 15 secured at the side of the platform 3. This lever, when depressed, tips the mold board slightly uponnected to the 11101 board near the ward for the purpose of assing over certain portions of the earth wit out carrying 'it in front of the mold board for use in distributing the dirt, as is necessary in some classes of grading.

A rudder or steering device consists of a long lever 16 bent downward at 17 and journaled in keepers 18 at the rear'end of the.

grader, said rudder having a shoe '19 at its rear end. This 'shoe' enetrates theearth a slight distance and ho ds the plow from sluing about at the rear end.

in operation, the driver may stand upon the platform 3' and may operate the leve:s 14 and 16 whenever required.

From the foregoing it will be obvious that {my invention is of sim le'construction, is light of'draft, can be Jessi y operated b a single person and has been found very e cient and desirable for its purpose.

In transporting the machine from place to place without in ury to thegrade or rader left and draggin it u on its back.

Having thus escri ed the invention, what is claimed as new, is:-

1. A rading device comprisin a landside bar, a fiatform secured to said and side, a. mold board connected to the front end of said land side, a draft device connected to said grader, a lever for adjusting the mold board vertically and a rudder for 'reventing the maplhine from switching or siiiing upon the roa 2. In a machine of the cheracter'described,

and the machine inverted by turning it to the a land side, a mold. board, a lever pivotally connected .to the moldboard, and a keeper through which said lever passes, said lever adapted to be operated toraise the'mold boarded" the ground topermit the dirt to pass under the same.

3. lns gradin -mach1ne,'a landside, a

side, and a'rudderconnected to a lever for onerat'ioneto revent the sluinglatera-lly of the machine ack and forth upon the road. In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses. a

i PARLEY J. JEWETT. Witnesses:

JAGHIN- Iii- HARPER,

J. n. Devi platform, a mold. oard secured to said land the rudder may be turned stem bac ward 

